Dennis Meng

guess i still need my nighttime coffee

@1999 Er, answers, sorry (and yes, I meant SO)

@Shog9 lol

out of curiosity, does anyone know if there was something special recently that would cause the spike in questions in the VLQ queue?

17.5 minutes longer

looks like i was the last flag

hmm

it's still there? sigh

(or maybe i've been gone so long that i forgot what the normal is like)

but a real tavern might have more talk

i'd say this feels like a real tavern

hi guys

did someone just flag a bunch of link only answers again?

and after reading the comments, realized that I had, and made a remark in the comments two months ago

I saw a question that made me go "Didn't I see this unclear question before?"

While manning the close vote queue today

@sudorm-rfTelkitty Maybe they thought "hardware" meant protective gear or something. Like hard hats.

@sudorm-rfTelkitty To be fair, (writing) software and soft wear go hand in hand. I mean, have you tried coding in uncomfortable clothing?

(or even gasp 4)

@Bart What about people saying "In my day, the close vote queue size had 5 digits?"

Just think though, half the new users will probably not remember what a dial-up tone sounds like

@hichris123 It's fine; me too. I've gotten all of 2 rep in 2 weeks

@hichris123 You're one of 2 nominees i saw who have less rep than me

so looks like everyone's going to be in the primary?

29 candidates

(minimod here meaning someone who does reviews and stuff 90% of time on SO and answers very little)

dunno if it was before or after i turned into a mini-mod

shrug

Interesting. I think I just ended up being the last guy to flag a comment before it got auto-soft-deleted

very nice

bbl

that actually got me my only disputed flags

@Undo well, was it your doing?

looking at the moderator candidates' vote counts make me feel inadequate

part of me wonders if i don't flag enough

did undo do his cleaning again?

Just got a bunch of link only answers in the low quality queue again

Would mine fall under the "crap" category?

as long as things are better now

@ShadowWizard I meant like 10 minutes ago. Site's working fine for me now too.

anyone else have a brief hiccup on stackexchange?

i want to say it was around 55k when i hit 3k rep

@hichris123 Say that again when the queue is twice as big

also, gratz on joining us in the 3k+ club

You'll see it soon enough; closed questions get plopped into the queue every time they're edited

As if the user plopped it on there trying to do the minimum to get it reopen votes

@hichris123 I could dig out a few examples, but the general thing is that when i see questions closed as off-topic in the queue, the question still isn't much better. An old example might be a question getting a wall of code after being closed for not having "minimal understanding", but has the code without any real clean up.

the reopen queue is rapidly becoming just as depressing as the vtc queue

and had a "java' and "haskell" one a while back

i just got one that had "c" and "scala" tags together